apartment building

noun

: a building containing separate residential apartments

called also apartment house

Examples of apartment building in a Sentence

We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.

Recent Examples on the Web

Another neighbor, James Wasielewski, who lives in the apartment building next door, said there was a small sign posted on the house from the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections. —Liz Crawford, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026

The fight had allegedly spilled into a parking lot of an apartment building, but ended before police could arrive. —Brian Niemietz, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026

But the Palmer Park Historic District is almost exclusively apartment buildings — 57 of them, according to a report for Detroit’s Historic District Commission. —Aaron Mondry, Freep.com, 8 Jan. 2026

In one Chicago raid, federal agents rappelled from Black Hawk helicopters onto an apartment building. —Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for apartment building

• boatbuilding
• outbuilding
• rebuilding
• roadbuilding
• shipbuilding
• upbuilding
• bodybuilding
• gilding

Kids Definition

apartment building

noun

: a building containing several individual apartments